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> So no, it's more racist to say "dumbblack" than "dumbwhite"

That's like saying that steak is food, but ramen isn't. Clearly, steak is considered a higher-quality food, but that doesn't negate the fact that ramen is food as well.

Due to the historical mistreatment of black people in America, it is more socially unacceptable to say something like "dumbblack"; however, "dumbwhite" is no less accurately described by 'a hatred or intolerance of another race'.
EVERY narrator has an agenda. Personally I appreciate it when an author doesn't pretend to objectivity.
Case in point, one of the strongest arguments against emancipation was that it would actually cripple the national economy. I expect that's not only in America either.
"If true, this signals a huge shift in WinPhone strategy."

This is a huge shift in their phone strategy, but I don't find it particularly surprising post-Surface-announce.

If you asked me a year ago if Microsoft were more likely to produce their own hybrid laptop/tablet or phone I'd have said phone in a heartbeat and I'd have thought you crazy for even suggesting Microsoft would build a laptop. There are far fewer serious OEMs for them to piss off in the Windows phone market than there are in the laptop space.
For some amusing stuff related to the Kola hole, google "well to hell" :-)
> and violent, but okay, it is a game company

That's no excuse for making their company website look like a black market gun store.
Well, then props to him for knowing how to keep his private feelings and thoughts out of the workplace.
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Maybe no one wants your product?

http://startup-marketing.com/the-startup-pyramid/
Right, but you can't just have two independent websites when people expect to be able to connect to all their friends. And with software being such a young field, scaling up is not always like just building a bigger factory - sometimes serving 10x as many users as you used to is something that no-one has ever done before with your kind of workload.
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>Is there an explanation for the events in the story that aren't clear examples of oppression? I can't find one.

Really? How about some guys talking BS and making irreverent jokes?

You keep using this word "oppression". I don't think it means what you think it means.
If I said "dumbblack motherfucker", I'd be called racist. The OP is being racist, regardless of what has or has not happened to him.
>which is blatantly racist and makes his complete argument null and void, because the comments he makes in this post are no better than the crap he heard at his job.

Oh hey, it's the rare explicitly stated ad hominem attack.
He "won't name the company." But searching on the text of the picture finds http://www.meh.ro/2012/06/07/rule-the-interwebz/ which tells me that it is Kixeye. And then https://www.google.com/search?q=kixeye.com+racism turns up lots of other stuff including people on the forums complaining that they don't police racist comments in game, http://www.theatlanticwire.com/topics/kixeye/# complaining about the sexism there, and so on. If you search this forum you'll find other links supporting their bad corporate culture.

He certainly didn't hide the company very well. However knowing the company makes his allegations much more plausible.
Why is this on front page?
It is a total fluff piece with no real value.

"But, he hinted to me, PHP and Zend will be providing client-side app-enabling tools."

There are already bunch of client-side app-enabling tools thousands of devs are using with PHP already.
Holy shit .. but .. Zend is coming up with some awesome batshit secret new sauce for client-side that will work with PHP! Mind = Blown!

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... wow. Just .... wow.

You may disagree with his fashion sense, but this man is smartly dressed. I don't see any Raiders jackets, or any baggy jeans/tee-shirts. Just because his clothing is not mainstream and he is black DOES NOT make it hip-hop fashion.

While we're on the topic, note the shoes in particular, very nice, especially for a guy struggling to afford a bedroom in Oakland.
Coincidentally, HN front page just received this link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/tech/mantle-earth-drill-mi...
What happens if the iPhone runs out of battery? The site says it still works if you have "lost power", but I assume this means in the household?
I would guess that the woman who stepped on the pendant land-mine had thought the pendant was some kind of Kenyan abacus. Or something. And phrased it very badly, because she sensed subconsciously that she was about to get her head bitten off for being a racist.

Naturally, she gets her head bitten off for being a racist...
"but if Yahoo has any hope in hell, they need to inject some innovative blood into themselves in a damn hurry."

I feel like Yahoo would be much better served by building a world-class internal VC arm than by aggressively chasing acquihires. Most acquihires aren't going to stick around after their terms vest, and even while they're around, their hearts and minds won't be dedicated to Yahoo. They're a stopgap solution at best. They can be used to good effect (i.e., to bring innovative projects into the company and to attract young talent to those projects). But they aren't the solution at the scale Yahoo needs.

What Yahoo needs is to win the war (or at least be competitive in the war) for the top talent graduating from university every year. Offering a really innovative, supportive, deep-pocketed, world-class incubator is one way to do this. Possibly a better long term solution than paying superstars for the privilege of their company for a few years at a time.
Using an email address instead of a username is SO HUGE of a usability win. I can't stand when companies don't do this.

My email address is going to be unique. I don't have to pick one of the few standard usernames I use and hope that it's available. I know my email address will be.

Have you ever been to a site that says username, but really wants an email address? It's absolutely infuriating.
This comment needs some editing by a less haughty writer it it's to be widely read.

Error-wise I didn't notice a ton of things, but:

> This [could use] some editing by a more experience English speaker if it's to be widely read [without grammar pedants coming out of the woodwork].
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And really, the only reason you aren't a Baptist is because you haven't given the Bible a real chance! All you have to do is read God's Word and let him into your heart and of course you'll believe exactly the same things I do to the letter even if they aren't actually found literally stated anywhere in the Bible.
It varies from package to package. Many Steam games are installed with a normal Windows MSI that just targets your `$STEAM/steamapps/common` folder instead of `/Program Files (x86)`, and these packages can be removed using the Control Panel or CCleaner.

There are plenty of Steam packages that use the Steam infrastructure in a much more integral manner, however. These packages (like TF2 or Half-Life 2) are stored in compressed and encrypted cache files, and install only some components into a directory like `$STEAM/steamapps/$USERNAME/`. These packages can only be removed using the Steam application. While package stubs may be placed for the Control Panel to manage, the "uninstall" action will just call the Steam "Delete Local Content" action.
No vanilla registration? I don't really want this linked to my Facebook or Twitter account. I also didn't see what the prize for "winning" is.
Except it really does. I fully support a good rant to get something off the chest. The OP is so intensely focused on the race of his attackers, that it is debilitating to the rest of his problem. It makes him look just as bad as his attackers for stooping to the race level.
Today if I loose my keys, I call a locksmith with my phone and pay him with my credit card.

A year from now if my phone runs out of battery, I am homeless. :)
Very interesting idea.
Do you mind sharing what language/db was used?
Please keep repeating this as many times as it needs to be said. I hate how the word racist has been watered down to the point of meaning anything that acknowledges someone's race. It's a game of false-equivalency that lets, ahem, white people ignore actual racism because "black people are racist too". The fact is, there is a world of difference between systemic racism and this kind of "racism" that the author is guilty of. Trying to equate the two and thus water down the severity of real racism is despicable.
That's a little bit unfair, there is no game changing task organisation app out there and it's a huge problem. Trello is the best right now in my opinion.

They focused too much on a perfect technical solution for web development.

When Moskovitz started he didn't sold his shares yet and they raised not that much money.

Parker seems a little desperate for attention in my opinion, being in the shadow of MZ is not easy i guess.
There are more advantages to this than you realize. For instance, my father is a quadriplegic and has limited dexterity so it is extremely difficult for him to handle keys. If he wanted the ability to lock a door on his way out, it would be much easier for him to make a few taps on his iPad and be on his way.
How do you deal with caller ID spoofing?
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> Yet another nail in the coffin of his credibility.

Please understand that the anger such treatment (validly) brings about is incredibly hard to suppress.

In that situation it's really hard to walk the line between expressing your emotions in such a way that it evokes similar emotions in others and not expressing so much anger that you will be classified as just bitter and vindictive.
Why not probe samples from a volcano, instead ???
I'm happy to add that but this is the first request :) the prize is a mystery prize (but I also own a sweet shop so you could take a guess ;) )
Now we're really down the rabbit hole of someone else's intent, but personally, I assumed he was still trying to maintain some restriction. So, no imaginary numbers, no trascendental numbers. It's easy to restrict what we take the root of, and what we do with the potential irrational result of such roots, to ensure that. As you pointed out, to not do so defeats the purpose of the exercise, and I think my assumption is both reasonable and charitable.
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Yes, but 12" is too small for dev work and it's still not possible to order T430 or T530 with IPS display.
> it's more racist to say "dumbblack" than "dumbwhite"

There are degrees of racism? Wasn't that a binary thing? I understand that racists aren't created equal since some are filled with more prejudices than others but I think the same doesn't apply to racism itself. I'm not arguing that life is harder for people who are (or so we are told, I've got no data) the majority of victims but a victim being racist isn't being "less racist" after all. He's contributing to a vicious circle. Whilst I understand such behaviour from an emotional point of view, it's definitely not wise.
Also, no "JS will be replaced" threat, no proprietary native VM in IE-prototype to advantage it over other browsers running TypeScript compiled to JS.

But I agree it is another case of two-faced behavior, not in the way you suggest. The IE blog post against Dart rejects a "clean break" and TypeScript builds on ES6. That's consistent.

What is not consistent is how similar parts (but not all) of TypeScript are to ES4, which MS opposed vigorously. Time has passed and ES4 had its own problems, so bygones.
I totally agree that nobody deserves to die. I do not actually endorse murder, or any form of violent response to oppression.

As I stated earlier, I was being hyperbolic. I had a strong emotional response to the article and I made a joke about it. I did not mean to debase the quality of the conversation here and I regret the callous way I expressed what I said.
If we fight amongst ourselves about race we miss the man behind the Zion curtain.

Go troll somewhere else, weev.
This isn't an "article". It's someone screaming in pain.
Here's a competing author's take on the final round of this competition: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564190
Because we want to know what's down there, not what comes up here.
Really? I just followed your link and got this: http://i.imgur.com/BO7wV.png

Hilariously, the very first link, "Sharing your world is easy with Skype", takes me to the home page of Skype.

When you search for "Skype" on Google, to expect the "Play" link to let you play with it or do you actually look through the results to find something?
While I am completely on the side of the original author here, I do agree that a lot of this requires direct and aggressive feedback. None of this passive-aggressive shit. That's why it keeps happening.

Clearly this institution has huge problems and what they are doing is totally wrong. BUT... the author just sat there and took it. He internalized the issues and let them consume him, going home, smoking weed and collapsing inward on himself. The guy is gay, so it makes sense that he reacted passive aggressively. Females tend to behave this way, which is why a lot of workplace related sexist shit still goes on. Girls don't speak up, they're submissive. They don't make it known that what is happening is wrong, and so nothing is done about it.

Obviously, in a perfect world, no one should have to speak up about shit like this! It's wrong! These guys that are acting like this are out of control. But... at the same time you cannot sit and take it and internalize it and think that magically things will get better. Stand up tall, and tell the person directly.
Be clear. Be loud.

I am so happy that your (black) friend does what he does. That is EXACTLY what you need to do. And yeah, it's unfortunate that the burdon is on the person being offended when what they are doing (simply existing with a different skin color or sexual orientation) is not wrong. But... that is the only way that things will change.
I very much doubt it. HN's audience is actually really very specific.
The Typescript syntax looks shockingly like Adobe's ActionScript. Next up, Adobe releases an ActionScript to Javascript cross compiler?
Am I the only one who misses 4:3?

I pull out my old T42 from time to time and it's so relaxing to code on such a screen ratio.
It's not clear that it is more socially unacceptable to say something like "dumbblack"... the workplace he was at essentially said that to him repeatedly for months, while he had a single rant on a webpage. But if you look at the breakdown of Hacker News comments, it's pretty clear where most people's sympathies lie.
Exactly. I used to run a small StackExchange site. One day I had a look at my user dump and was surprised to see how many duplicate (and triplicate) accounts there were.
> Note: this is me trying to stay dispassionate and non-angry. If I was the author of this piece I'd be incandescent. Props to him for staying calm and documenting this stuff rather than simply walking out. Or exploding

I couldn't even make it to the end, I think I just managed to read 80% of the whole piece, I'm pretty, pretty f.ing mad, and I've never even been to the States.

A little OT: And while we're on this, I guess this is a moment as good as any to get it off my chest, that is to say that nasty s.it like this happens not only in the States, but here in (Eastern) Europe, too.

I work in a small company, I'm IT, and around last week or so one of my (female, white) colleagues just out of the blue proffered somth. like "I'd kill all the gipsies, they're not human". I (white male, early 30s) at first tried to take it easy, made a little fun of her, to see if she was serious (she was), and then 10-15 minutes later I confronted her directly. The part that did it for me, at which even now, when I'm remembering the whole thing, makes me angry, it's the "they're not human" part. She is a really nice person otherwise, happily married, no children yet, but yet she said that nasty phrase as the most natural thing ever.
Mystery prizes are good, too! Maybe adding "mystery" in the copy somewhere would help clarify that. Or change "prize" to "surprise." In any case, it seems like a neat idea and it's well-executed for a 1-day project.
Ah, the tone argument.

Are you looking to round out the racism discussion derail bingo card, or just completely clueless?
Just ordered one. I'm literally sitting on an L couch with my friend across from me while going through the options. Trying to look intently at her face without her noticing. Thankfully, she is lost in her own laptop.

For all the people saying you could download the files and do it yourself, I say sure. You could do that. But you could also send something nice to someone in the mail at some point in the future as a surprise. People like getting mail. Real mail. Ya you could put it in the mail yourself, but will you? $12 is cheeper than a movie in NYC. Totally worth it.

For the team at foldable.me: Great product. I would work on:

-expanding the selections and options

-adding high heel shoes

-allowing someone to upload a head shot and "cartoonize" it. There are some sites that do this... partner with them?

-add different sizes to your cutouts... s/m/l

-animals like dogs, cats, horses, sheep, cows, etc.
> If this is an accurate recollection, the author is a seriously disturbed person

So you're saying that an overly defensive reaction to someone misunderstanding a fashion object means he's likely to shoot the place up? That a guy gets systematically discriminated against at the workplace, and you're worried he's too angry about it? And that he might get violent about it because one single other person one time did? And that the U.S. military, which features numerous official directives against racial discrimination, is an aptly analogous institution?
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Hey Guys,

I’m looking for some advice for my wife from the HN point of view.

My wife is an accomplished Journalist with a degree in communications and business from a good university. After taking a 5 year sabbatical to care for our daughter she wants to reenter the workforce but this time in the technology field. Unfortunately, she is meeting much resistance attempting to get her foot into the door as a Tester, Writer or Jr. Analyst. The main problem being that there are rarely ever entry level opportunities posted in our area (Dallas, TX).

Do you guys have any leads or suggestions on one could best positions themselves for this type of career re-entry?

I would also add that if anyone requires any copy writing or technical writing for projects she is available to help you out in order to gain some marketable experience.
One benefit of not having vanilla registration is that you're more or less going to have all unique users. One could imagine gaming the system using multiple accounts.
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> Apart from the comment about the pendant, any one of the comments listed above would be a firing offense here.

You know, it occurs to me that it's kinda sad that "firing offense" is the highest degree of punishment we have available to inflict. It's our proxy for social exile, but it's not actually social exile. That doesn't seem enough, but jailing and fining don't seem to fit either.
You are right in that access to the core "gapps" is commercially restricted to whose who have deals in place with Google.

Speaking as a purely practical matter, as an end-used you can easily get "gapps" builds for virtually any Android device though technically you will be violating copyright (unless you are using those "gapps" as a replacement for a 'backup' of the distribution that came with your phone originally).

After a botched cease-and-desist on Cyanongenmod back a few years ago (2009?) Google turns a blind eye to this sort of sharing of gapps. I've never heard of them taking any action against any gapps provider since that whole C&D debacle despite the fact that these files are shared openly all over the place.
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> Statistically, you would expect more crime against white people since there are so many more of them.

Actually, the crime rate among blacks is much higher even after normalizing for population.
> It unnecessarily adds doubt to the claims being made. If your narrator has an agenda it becomes difficult to trust that narrator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)

In brief, saying "X is wrong, because X subscribes to ideology I" is not a logically valid argument. Willing to hear X's argument and consider it on its own merits does not grant legitimacy to I.

The narrator's argument isn't "white people are colonizers, so...", he merely enumerates what he has experienced. That phrasing is unfortunate (but pales in comparison to being told far more offensive things _at work_) it doesn't detract from (or add to) his argument, i.e., it's an irrelevant detail.
I assume you could still use a key. Nothing seems to be covering the deadbolt lock on the outside of the door. I have the same problem with two-factor authentication though, I guess you'll just always need a backup.
In my experience, a lot of boys have acted that way towards me because they've honestly never met a woman who can code. It takes a little bit before they warm up to that fact.

After a while, if they're still being a dick, I'll just go somewhere else and find people to work with that aren't egocentric and dumb.

That's one of the reasons why working with my brother is so awesome--he knows me well and doesn't assume I'm a "non-computer-person".

GIRLS DO THIS TOO. Some girls also assume that girls are less technically inclined.

My whole life, I've just had to keep on going and showing people what I'm capable of. Since I'm a white girl who likes wearing dresses, people don't expect it, but they find out soon enough.
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Same here, doesn't render properly on Windows Phone. Works perfectly on Android though.
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I wonder if that main character is really racist, or if he is "merely" trying to intimidate his colleagues to be the boss, and racism is simply the easiest route to intimidation.

While it might sound as if in effect there is no difference, I think there might be: one variant makes the victim think "whoa, the world is full of racists out to get me", the other is "just another asshole boss".

I mean the latter case would be somebody looking for weaknesses in his opponents. If the other person is a white guy, he would probably find something else, joke about is weight, being poor or whatever applies.

That's of course no excuse, it just seems easier to remove yourself from the affects of one bad boss/colleague than from racism.
The fact is this type of talk in an office is simply inappropriate and cannot be tolerated. I have only sympathy for people who are trying to defend here. Just proves America would need another 100 years to be civilised.
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At least by his own recollection. Anyone who is harboring that kind of hostility, whatever the cause, is going to exude pretty strange vibes in person.

What's disturbing to me is not that an obviously talented young person like the OP has these kinds of issues. He'll almost certainly grow out of them.

It's that so many older, wiser people, who obviously don't have personal problems of their own, seem intent on encouraging this way of thinking. Just because you think you're doing good, doesn't mean you actually are.
If not anything else, the fonts seriously suck on that site.
I like how this fixates on the smallest offense and considers it representative and most relevant for armchair psychological analysis.
That's just factually wrong. Software does have those. Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women.